The government will fix this Medicare mistake next April

Would-be thieves will soon have one less avenue to use to snare your Social Security number.

Medicare has been the odd holdout among health insurance companies in using Social Security numbers as the basis for member IDs — and printing those identifiers right on the insurance card. That ends next year.

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